How It All Began

Five years ago I undertook my first Global Education projects utilizing the educational website ePals.  My partners were in China and Ghana.  One of the teachers I met was Samuel Agyapong (pictured above) in Ghana, Africa.  Sam and I corresponded and taught each other about our separate cultures, education systems, and environmental issues.  This year our students are corresponding as pen pals (Ghana Pen Pals below) while learning about environmental and related cultural issues.

In 2013 I learned that I had been accepted into Teachers for Global Classrooms(TGC), a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department implemented by IREX.  I also learned that I would be assigned to Ghana for the overseas portion of the program.  This has given me the opportunity to meet  Mr. Agyapong and our pen pal students in person.  This international field experience will take place the last two weeks of March 2014 and will be the subject of this blog, Ghana Adventure.
Anyone interested in the TGC program may find information at the following link: http://www.irex.org/project/teachers-global-classrooms-program-tgc